A Curio for the Count - The Decrepit Butler (Regency Romance Mystery Thriller)

When writing a scene for A Curio for the Count in which antiques expert Jade and her brother Edward visit an elderly client to value his huge collection of clocks, I thought it logical that the man’s butler would be equally aged.

Once I realized I was mentally envisaging him as similar to the decrepit retainer Henry from the 1936 crime comedy After The Thin Man, I couldn’t get the image out of my head.

Interestingly, Henry the butler was played (uncredited, no less) by a pioneer of the American movie industry, Tom Ricketts. He played Ebenezer Scrooge in the first US film adaptation of A Christmas Carol in 1908, and directed one of the first films made in Hollywood. He directed dozens of silents before becoming a character actor.

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Audio: Take Your Time by LiQWYD. Used under license from Storyblocks.
Image used under license from Ingram Image.